The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming

Open Thread

I woke up this morning with a grogginess that reminded me that I should probably drink some matcha or have some form of matcha substance. It was a good night of sleep with the aroma of a guava candle that made my dreams too sweet to remember. Gonna make up for that with a white choco matcha!

My one hour of Steam Deck escape at work today was Okami during lunch, with some teriyaki noodles and pocky to snack on. I’m starting a clean save on my Deck just to see how everything performs, and so far everything has gone without a hitch! I’m installing Abyss Odyssey on it, in case I have the sudden need to torture myself during tomorrow’s work lunch excursion. 😛

Gaming / Hobbies

Keep On Rocking In The Steam World

Today at lunch I decided to be a cat. I have Stray setup to play, and get some more achievements. 😛 Did some Broforce a bit earlier too, it isn’t rated for the Steam Deck, but it is Linux compatible. Playing these old games on it makes me think back to my old GBA. If anything, the Steam Deck is what the five year old me would have loved; a portable hand held that could play DOOM or Jazz Jackrabbit would have been siiiiiiiiiiiiiick.

I’ve also been taking a bit of a walk down Memory Lane, and ended up finding content for some TF2 videos! Unlike last night’s video these ones will be nothing but gameplay, just a good time. The unsuspecting internet will just have to wait until October for more questionable animation. 😛

Gaming

Steam Deck Sunday

Today was great! I woke up at my leisure, made an excellent breakfast, rendered the ending in SFM, and played around more on my deck! I added my Yakuza mods onto the Steam Deck, and played/tested some other games. Okami runs perfectly. Trine needed a bit of a controller adjustment, but otherwise it was fine. I think I have enough of a good assortment to carry around for now, and enough modding to raise some eyebrows. 😛

Gaming

The Deckening

I spent today playing “What can I play on my Steam Deck?”. So far I’ve only had two games not work for me, but they were not on the verified or playable lists. I’ve been spending the evening pumping as many games onto the SD and built in storage as I can. 😛 It’s gonna be great being able to play during lunch breaks again. I stopped carrying my gaming laptop to work after injuring my back last year, just to make sure I didn’t put any additional strain on it first thing in the morning. Now I finally have something portable, light weight, and I don’t have to re-buy my games on another platform! Epic w00tage!

Now that it’s the weekend I have the options of gaming on the couch with 4K sweetness, or lounging around literally anywhere outside with the Steam Deck doing mad science experiments… decisions, decisions.

Gaming

I Regret Nothing

My first day out and about with my new Steam Deck was a success! I tested a bit of Sonic Mania, Team Racing, and Stray. All of them ran as if they were natively ported! The battery life so far seems to be holding up. One of my friends joined me for lunch today and they thought it was a Nintendo Switch! 😀 I’ve also been checking out the included desktop mode. It’s a super light version of KDE. Steam OS seems nice so far, but I’m kinda disappointed by the lack of items in their repository. Usually I could just install smb or KDE Connect for networking between other systems on a local network, but they don’t provide those on their repo… I would think Valve would want to put that option in for LAN gaming and network access.

It’s not that big of a deal though… I can always fork it in from another repo! 😛 I did that all the time under other distros when I couldn’t find something.

Food/Drink

Current Mood: Japan

Today I got to:

  • Eat Miso Soup for a light breakfast/work lunch
  • Shower in cherry blossoms
  • Drink sencha green tea with blueberry
  • Eat left over zesty noodles
  • Drink a white chocolate matcha with strawberry
  • Light a sacred cherry blossom soy candle for a peaceful rest

It’s finally nice to do some of the things 17 year old me always wanted to do. I remember a time when you couldn’t buy miso soup ingredients nearby, let alone have much in the way of pre-packaged miso. I remember reading about matcha, but not knowing where to get it without buying online. Now a days I can get a lot of this stuff locally and enjoy it to my hearts content! Plus, online options have also become more available and plentiful!

How things change.

Food/Drink

The Overlord Sez: Drink Ur Matcha

According to a recent study; Drinking matcha can help you not only sleep better, but mentally function better as well.

The participants underwent cognitive function and sleep quality evaluations, as well as various blood and neuroimaging tests, at the start and end of the trial, which the researchers describe as a double blind placebo-controlled randomized comparative study. At the end of the year, the matcha group, compared to the placebo group, displayed “a significant improvement in social cognition assessed with a facial expression recognition test, specifically, the precision of their perception of emotions based on facial expression.”

As a celebrated tea drinker I see nothing wrong with this! I’ve actually started drinking some matcha sweetened with monkfruit in the evening recently, and maybe it’s a coincidence but I do have an easier time waking up in the morning.